Old Photograph Dryburgh Abbey Scotland

Old photograph of Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland. Located near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The Abbey was founded in 1152 by Premonstratensian monks, Augustinians, also known as White Canons, on a site made sacred by Saint Modan around 600. It was founded by monks from Alnwick on land owned by Hugh de Moreville, the father of one of the assassins of Saint Thomas Becket. The Abbey was burned by English troops in 1322, after which it was restored and used by Robert I of Scotland. It was again burned in 1385, but it flourished in the fifteenth century. It was finally destroyed in 1544, briefly to survive until the Reformation, when it was given to the Earl of Mar by James VI of Scotland. The Earl of Buchan bought the land in 1786; the property is now managed by Historic Scotland. Sir Walter Scott and Douglas Haig are buried in its grounds.



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